Home education is legal and reasonably common in the UK, and the rules are shorter than most people expect. What follows is the practical shape of it, and where this app does and does not help. It is not legal advice — the authority is GOV.UK and your own local council, and the detail varies between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Under the Education Act 1996 the duty sits with the parent: a child of compulsory school age must receive efficient full-time education suitable to their age, ability and aptitude, either by attending school or "otherwise". Home education is that "otherwise", and it is a right, not a concession.
Two things follow that surprise people:
What you must not do is nothing. Councils can and do ask what provision is being made, and a vague answer is where difficulties start. Check the current position on GOV.UK before relying on any of this — rules change, and Scotland in particular differs.
If your child has never been to school, there is nothing to do. If they are enrolled, you write to the head teacher asking for them to be removed from the register; the school tells the council. A child at a special school placed there by the council is the exception and needs the council's agreement first. Councils differ in how much they then ask for, so read your own council's home-education page rather than a general one.
The freedom is real and it is also the hard part. Most families want the academic standard of a good school without the parent becoming a full-time teacher. A ready-made spine solves the planning problem: this app follows the National Curriculum through to Cambridge IGCSE, so a child's year is laid out rather than invented each Sunday night, while you stay free to ignore any of it.
KS2, Years 3–6 · GCSE and IGCSE · Year 6 SATs practice
The usual arrangement is a secular curriculum from one place and Islamic education bolted on at the weekend — which makes it the first thing to go in a difficult week. Here Islamic Studies is one of the 11 subjects on the same timetable, with 47 lessons, the same tests and a place in the mock papers. the full programme explains how the week fits together.
You are not required to keep a particular format, but being able to show what has been covered turns an awkward conversation into a short one. The app produces printable worksheets with answer keys, per-child progress reports, and dated test results — enough to evidence provision without building a paper trail by hand.
Yes. Parents must ensure a child of compulsory school age receives efficient full-time education suitable to their age, ability and aptitude, at school 'or otherwise'. Home education is that 'otherwise'. See GOV.UK for the current rules, which differ across the four nations.
No. The National Curriculum applies to maintained schools, not to home-educating parents. Many families follow it anyway because it gives a known structure and keeps the door to GCSEs open.
Not if your child has never attended, or attended a mainstream school — you write to the head teacher to be removed from the register. A child at a special school placed by the council is the exception and needs the council's agreement.
Yes, as a private candidate through an exam centre, which you arrange and pay for. This app teaches to GCSE and IGCSE content and gives timed mock papers, but it enters nobody for an exam and awards no qualification.
There is no required format. Keeping completed worksheets, test results and a progress report per child is usually more than enough, and the app produces all three.
Yes — the curriculum is British and Cambridge IGCSE is an international qualification, so it travels. There is a US version with American grade labels, and a Pakistan page.